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UK
/skˈɪni/
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[ US /ˈskɪni/ ]
[ US /ˈskɪni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being very thin
pale bony hands
a long scrawny neck
a child with skinny freckled legs - of or relating to or resembling skin
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giving or spending with reluctance
very close (or near) with his money
a penny-pinching miserly old man
our cheeseparing administration -
fitting snugly
a tightly-fitting cover
tight-fitting clothes
NOUN
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confidential information about a topic or person
he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner
How To Use skinny In A Sentence
- So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
- I thought all my relo's in America were skinny… like the one's here.
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- Among them was a very skinny, red-haired girl.
- Wear over skinny cigarette trousers with a boxy jacket. Times, Sunday Times
- Yes | No | Report from steve182 wrote 22 hours 48 min ago looks like a skinny horsetail protruding from the center of the chest. QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
- My father was quite a skinny, emaciated man, my brother a build a stark halfway between my father and I.
- He pulled over, struggling with the words to the classic song by that skinny girl who died in a closet.
- "I'm a vegan and I looked awfully skinny at one point, " she explains.
- They ran us off so we headed off to a secluded spot on the Clinch river and skinny-dipped there. Spot-On: Status Quo